Word: monongahela
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McManama has received wide acclaim in his new home along the Monongahela. Schiffhauer said that McManama has "become the talk or the town among Pittsburgh hockey fans...
...unique institution called the National Youth Science Camp, where 100 of the nation's brightest 16-to 18-year-old male science students (average IQ: 130-plus) gather for a free three weeks of serious talk and relaxation. West Virginia originally founded the camp in the Monongahela National Forest, about 50 miles from the nearest sizable town, partly to enhance the state's backward image (annual cost: $80,000). After ten summers, the 15-acre camp has become a nationally respected meeting ground for young talent. IBM lends computer equipment; the nearby National Radio Astronomy Observatory provides lecturers...
Good Throw. Most impressive of all these recycled centers is Pittsburgh's Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts. It stands on prime real estate, in the so-called Golden Triangle area, just at the point where the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers meet to form the Ohio. The former Penn (movie) Theater, it was reclaimed from the wreckers in 1968 for $800,000, then remodeled for around $10 million in only 15 months. Since its opening last fall, Heinz Hall has become the focal point of an energetic renaissance of Pittsburgh's artistic life. It is in regular...
...understood the problem firsthand. To get his orchestra started, Boudreau walked the streets knocking on doors, until H.J. Heinz II, head of H.J. Heinz Co., gave him $15,000 and Duquesne University matched it. Ever since, he has been floating his barge up, down and around the Allegheny, Monongahela, Ohio and Mississippi rivers, drawing audiences to the riverbanks for the kind of experience more often enjoyed in the past by kings -notably King George I, who ordered up the Handel Water Music...
With a canoe and sampling bottles, two Penn State University professors spent five months last year testing 60 miles of the Ohio and Monongahela rivers near Pittsburgh. As a result, Biologist John Zavodni and Political Scientist David Nixon (no kin to the President) documented 500 cases of industrial water pollution and filed 362 affidavits with the Justice Department...